Revolutionary Cells

The Revolutionary Cells were an urban guerrilla organization active in Germany from 1973 to 1995, one of the most dangerous communist groups in West Germany during the Cold War. It had 186 attacks, 40 of which were in West Berlin, and the RZ was responsible for numerous bombings and assassinations in addition to the OPEC siege and the hijacking of Air France Flight 139 in 1976. The group's downfall came after it went from a leftist militant revolutionary group to an anti-Semitic group, with the hijackers of the Air France flight separating the non-Jewish passengers from the Jews and holding the latter in the Entebbe airport. Hans-Joachim Klein and other members of the group saw this as similar to the facsist government of Nazi Germany, an idea which they fought against, and they left. In 1993, the group announced the end of its armed struggle.